Source: Team_Talk
Boateng to sign for City before WC
Germany defender Jerome Boateng has confirmed he will sign for Manchester City before departing for the World Cup in South Africa.[LNB] A £10.46million move has appeared on the cards for several weeks now, and the 21-year-old told Bild magazine it will be wrapped up in the coming days.[LNB]"I am going to sign on (for City) before leaving for the World Cup and the deal will be completed," he said.[LNB]"It has been decided that I am moving there."[LNB]Boateng confirmed City manager Roberto Mancini had visited him in Hamburg and talked him into the move.[LNB]"He came with two representatives to Hamburg and we chatted for one or two hours," said Boateng.[LNB]"He convinced me to make the transfer. He believes that I will definitely need a few months to get settled in once in England, but that he sees so much potential in me that he will improve me.[LNB]"Even if many people say that I am going to struggle to make the breakthrough, I am confident that I will.[LNB]"I am not afraid of anybody."[LNB]Boateng is keen to leave Germany, where he says his family is being hounded by the media after his half-brother Kevin-Prince's foul on Michael Ballack in the FA Cup final ruled the Germany captain out of the World Cup.[LNB]Jerome could come up against his sibling in Germany's final group game against Ghana since Kevin-Prince recently switched allegiances, which was permissible due to a parental link with the African nation.[LNB]That game is already taking on a new significance due to Kevin-Prince's tackle on the Chelsea midfielder, but Boateng does not like the way the media have been shadowing his family members wherever they go.[LNB]"It disturbs me the way our family name is being dragged around in public and my family is not being left in peace," he said.[LNB]"It is not on that my big brother George suddenly has cameras on his doorstep and he is being forced to stay indoors.[LNB]"This has overstepped the mark. It has been ridiculous."[LNB]Boateng has been on international duty with Germany in their training camps in Sicilia and Sudtirol and will only get to spend a few days at home from Friday before jetting out to South Africa, but the reports he has received each time he has called home have disturbed him.[LNB]He even called the police to ask them to remove photographers and reporters from his family home, but the answer he received shocked him even further.[LNB]"They said I have just got to live with that, being a Boateng," he reported.[LNB]"That has gone too far. That is not on. What is the world coming to when my family cannot go out for a coffee or my brother cannot play with his children in the garden peacefully?"
